Tuesday, May 17, 2016

UK: Stop giving British aid money to Palestinian terrorists, Jewish community say in new campaign

Jewish
groups are launching a campaign to stop British aid being used to fund
Palestinian terrorists following shocking revelations in The Mail on
Sunday.

They
are demanding the Government cut all funding to the Palestinian
Authority (PA) until it ends support for payments of ‘salaries’ to
suicide bombers and child killers.

The Department for International Development (DFID) will this year give the PA £25.5 million.

McCann says DFID is ‘guilty of turning a blind eye to UK taxpayers’ money being used to incentivise murder’.

In
March, we exposed how ‘rewards for murder’ flowed from British and
European funding bodies to terrorists accused of atrocities.

Our
investigation found millions being passed on from the PA to the
Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) – which in turn gives it to
convicted terrorists locked up in Israeli prisons, and their families.

The
Board of Deputies of British Jews, which represents the Jewish
community, and advocacy group the Israel-Britain Alliance, will put
pressure on MPs to attend the June 13 debate on aid spending forced by
Mail on Sunday readers.

Over 228,000 signed an online petition calling on MPs to stop spending a fixed sum of 0.7 per cent of nationalincome on aid.

Jonathan
Arkush, president of the Board of Deputies, said it supported aid for
people in need, but added: ‘Until DFID can be absolutely sure that money
is going to the right people, and not funding terrorists and
incitement, either directly or indirectly, we call for the aid to be
suspended while a rigorous review takes place.’

Mr
McCann, who became director of the Israel-Britain Alliance after losing
his seat last year, said: ‘People don’t want their hard-earned cash
given to terrorists.’